Country’s Covid-19 in death toll reaches 7,378

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News Desk :
Amid global alarm after detection of new strains of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom and South Africa, Bangladesh’s Covid-19 fatalities rose to 7,378 until Thursday with 19 more deaths in the past 24 hours.
The health authorities also reported 1,234 new Covid-19 cases during the same period, taking the country’s total caseload to 506,102.
The death rate stood at 1.46%, the Directorate General of Health Services said.
So far, 446,690 patients – 88.26 % – have recovered with 2,345 in the past 24 hours.
Bangladesh reported its first cases on March 8. The infection number reached the 5,00000-mark on December20.
The first death was reported on March 18 and the death toll exceeded 7,000 on December 12.
So far, 3,135,653 tests have been carried out, including 13,227 new ones. And the overall infection rate stood at 16.14 %.
Bangladesh is seeing 2,971.71 infections, 2,622.86 recoveries, and 43.32 deaths per million.
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